A Kawasaki KLR650

I bought a motorcycle today. A Kawasaki KLR650, dual sport bike.

Started out easy, rode around town a little. Still getting completely comfortable with the clutch on a motorbike. Heading down to Los Angeles on the bike at the weekend so planning to get lots of practice before that. 🙂

The giant silver boxes will be my new backpack. I am now a motorcycling backpacker!

I’ll likely hit Vancouver for a while, then across to Toronto / Montreal and downwards towards Argentina. I have a friend flying into somewhere in South America late in the year and I’m thinking I might rendezvous with him and ride north together. We’ll see how it plays out…

@Morgan Tocker: They came with the bike, one of its biggest selling points. They are probably a similar litre capacity to my current bag. But I’m going to strap my current backpack on top of the cases / frame / back seat until I get my luggage fully streamlined. 🙂